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Forty-two students from Boston's Citizen Schools are visiting Hamilton this week as members of 8th Grade Academy. Citizen Schools is a growing national network of after-school education programs for middle school students. This is the fourth year the Boston-based middle schoolers are visiting Hamilton to get a taste of college life.

Materials Technician in Art J. Anthony DiMezza will be exhibiting an installation at the Tiffany Smith Gallery in Johnstown, N.Y. The installation, "May serendipity be a guiding star," is considered by Dimezza to be a physical manifestation of Murphy's Law. The exhibition will run from Feb. 20 - March 13, with an opening reception on Feb. 20 from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m.

Angel David Nieves, associate professor of Africana Studies, contributed an essay, "Place of pain as tools for social justice in the 'new' South Africa: Black heritage preservation in the 'rainbow' nation's townships," in William Logan & Keir Reeves (eds.), Places of Pain and Shame: Dealing with 'Difficult Heritage' (London: Routledge, 2009).

Students in the Program in Washington, D.C., visited Arlington National Cemetery on Feb. 11. After observing the solemn ceremony of the changing of the guard at the Tomb of the Unknown, students visited other significant sites, including the home of Robert E. Lee, the USS Maine memorial, and the gravesites of John F. Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy.

The Recycling Task Force replaced the waste baskets in Spencer House on Feb. 13, making it the first Hamilton building that "Canned the Can."  Can the Can is a waste reduction program where office waste is targeted for recycling by reducing the waste basket or eliminating it from the office work station. Ninety-five percent of office waste is white paper, which should be recycled, and often a large waste basket is unnecessary.

Scholarly work in instructional technology designed by Barb Tewksbury, the Upson Chair for Public Discourse and Professor of Geosciences, and Heather Macdonald of the College of William and Mary, has been peer-reviewed and published in Multimedia Educational Resources for Learning and Online Teaching (MERLOT).

Artwork by Visiting Professor of Art Kathryn Parker Almanas was published in Toronto Life magazine, Superbugged: p.58-59, 61, 62: March 2009. Her work accompanied an article about Superbugs by Stephanie Verge. The writer contracted a superbug (MRSA) while she was in the hospital and the piece is about her terrifying experience. The photos were from Almanas' series "Medical Interior" that deals with similar themes of patient perspective and the tempestuous environment of the hospital where life and death, comfort and fear coexist.

In Celebration of Black History Month, Hamilton will host a Black Inventions Exhibit on Tuesday, Feb. 17, from 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. in K.J. Commons. The exhibit was created to develop racial pride, promote racial understanding and remedy public ignorance about black inventors, achievers, pioneers and scientists. it is appearing at various venues throughout North America.

The Chordata: Mammalia got a thumbs up, Mollusca: Cephalopoda received mixed reviews, and Echinodermata: Echinoidea was simply "nasty," according to attendees of the Biology Department's Phylum Feast on Feb. 12. For the layperson, those are chicken wings, fried squid and sea urchin roe, and they were among delicacies served at the feast to celebrate Darwin Day, the 200th birthday of evolutionary biologist Charles Darwin.

The Department of Comparative Literature is hosting a "Literature at Lunchtime" discussion of Orhan Pamuk's My Name is Red with Ohio State University Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Literatures Richard Davis. The event will take place on Friday, Feb. 20, from 1-3 p.m. in the Dwight Lounge of the Bristol Campus Center.